Top 5 reasons why this was the most amazing experience ever…

Okay so it’s taken me about a week an a half now to actually be able to write this post but in all fairness after you have spent about 6 months preparing for one day, I think that it’s okay to take a little time to celebrate and process it all.

I guess that if I had to sum it up in one (more than likely poorly written) sentence I would say: Running the Boston Marathon was one of the most amazing experiences that I have had in my life so far for so many reasons.

Here are 5 of them:

5. I remember growing up and going in to watch marathon with my mom and her friend Sharon Jaworski and her kids. We’d be standing right next to the Johnny Kelley statue across the street from Newton City Hall , and I remember standing there thinking “Wow this is so cool! I really want to run the marathon some day but I don’t think that I could ever run that far.”

4. Five years ago I couldn’t even run a mile without being totally exhausted. One year ago the furthest distance that I had ever run was five miles.

3. Over the past 6 months I this is what that little voice in my head kept asking me over and over and over again, ” Have you lost your mind? You will never ever be able to run 26.2 miles no matter how hard you train.” I think that we all know that there isn’t anything I like more than being right even when it’s an argument that I am having with myself.

2. The immeasurable amount of love and support that you all have showed me over the past 6 months helped me realize more than ever that I am so incredible lucky to know each and every single one of you. I didn’t run this marathon on my own the love and support of each of you was with me with each and every step.

1. The entire time I thought about all of these people: because not one single muscle ache or blister pain is anything compared to what these people have gone through.

• Richard Williamson
• Bill Williamson
• Keith Shutz
• Jean Marston
• Patrice Burkett
• Walter Guptill
• Rita Donovan
• Beverly McLaughlin
• Richard Jackson
• Trish Granier
• Anne Moriarty
• Tish McGinn
• Kathy Schulser
• and for everyone else that that someone I love loves with cancer.